Volume 11 , Issue 16

Dear Duchess

See the photo of "My Bud" to the left? That is my favorite NW Oklahoman, J. L. "Bud" Clark. My human beings tell me that I get to see him while we are back in NW Oklahoma for a couple of weeks or so. BOW WOW ... WOW!

When Sadie Sadie and myself went on strike, NW Okie has let me take over the OkieLegacy Twitter site!

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Lookin Back ... To the Future!

Mike says, "It was actually April 28, 2000 in the 3rd Volume and 17th Issue (see Archives) where the name changed to The Okie Legacy. I was in DC. Where were you?

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Insight Into Grandma

This week's letter from John McClure to Miss Constance Warwick takes us back to March 3rd, 1904, Quincy, Ill. It is postmarked Quincy, Ill., Mar. 4 2-PM 1904 and addressed to Miss Constance Warwick, Alva, Okla.

Dear Connie, I received your letter day before yesterday, and will answer so you will get it Saturday.

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Mysterious Wildbird Is Pine Siskin

In last weeks newsletter we had some videos of our Junco's and a mysterious wildbird that we were trying to identify. Thanks goes out to Jim Barker and Ellis Raymer who helped us identify this particular wildbird as a "Pine Siskin." I knew Jim would know 'cause he seems to know a lot about birds and other things.

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Chickadee & Pine Siskin In SW Colorado Mtns

Here is a link to another video of the Pine Siskin that NW Okie put up on her YouTube.com site at this URL: Pine Siskin video. Notice the video of a couple of chickadee's at the beginning of the video.

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Pine Siskin In SW Colorado Mtns

Here is some information I found online about the Pine Siskin -- "Pine Siskins typically irrupt in the west every other winter, but the pattern is much less reliable in the east. Siskins routinely visit feeders in the mountainous west in large numbers and only show minimal irruption patterns there. The large numbers of siskins in the east this winter are most likely due to a shortage of their typical winter food supplies in the forests of Canada." -- birds.cornell.edu

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4-18-2009 Grosbeak & Squirrels

Our gray squirrel brought a friend to feed in our backyard this week. AND ... we saw our first Evening Grosbeak (wildbird) feeding on our patio table.

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A Guide To All About Birds

If you want to know about the Evening Grosbeak, we found this link for you at these links. Here is another link over at www.allaboutbirds.org.

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Louthan Family & Ashley, OK

Ila Marlatt Wessels says, "I am very interested in the Louthan family history. I have written a book about Ashley, Oklahoma area with pictures. It is 273 pages. I sell them for $20 which includes postage. My grandparents lived about l mile from the Louthan family.

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Is Your State Or Town Haunted?

Ellis sent us this link - theshadowlands.net - to check to see if your State or Town was listed as a haunted town.

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Jim Lange 1926-2009

The Daily Oklahoman reported, "Longtime Cartoonist, Jim Lange Dies -- The newspaper also said this about Jim Lange, "Lange retired in October, after a prodigious career as an editorial cartoonist for the daily newspaper in his adopted hometown.

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NW Oklahoma's Saturday Tornadic Winds

NewsOK.com also reported in their Sunday paper, ".....Woods County officials reported that storms toppled an antenna that stood several stories tall and also knocked down trees and power lines.

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Other Saturday Storm Stories

Rod said, "Yes - we'd just left Alva after a play at NWOSU and the storm went through there about the time we got back to Jet [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Oklahoma Research & Twitter

Paul Ricketts (paul@thesunrideshigh.com) says, "Hi Linda, After seeing you on Twitter, I was interested to see your website and research. Whilst we live in Maryland, I?m researching my wife?s family in Oklahoma.

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AHS Reunion In June

As to the Alva High School class reunion coming this June for the class of '59 ... Steve N. says, "My wife (Chris) and I will be attending the activities this June 5 & 6. We already have the motel reservations. You have asked for information on our "life & family". Do you want this in email or hard copy. I have some digital pictures I can send, or I could print them out and send them that way. What ever is best for you all.

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More Oklahoma Weekend Rain

Roy says, "Last night and this morning we added another 1-1/2 inches of rain to the inch we received last weekend here in Perry, Oklahoma and our gasoline prices have remained steady for a week! The Conoco and Phillips price for regular-unleaded has stayed at $1 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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NEW - Scrolling Okie Shouts

Did you see something NEW at the top of this weeks OkieLegacy newsletter? That would be something my NWOKTechie has developed, called "Okie Shouts."

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